Word: signore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...criticism of Signor Croce is not warmed by the appreciative apathy of a Matthew Arnold. Like that of the pompous old English bigot, his criticism is the God-given and incontrovertible judgment of the dogmatist. He approaches his task with a theory to expound, and deaf to all confuting evidence, he picks and chooses and maintains his position...
...genius which the nineteenth century brought forth, he includes only one Englishman among them. This fortunate is Sir Walter Scott. With a Pecksniffian wave of his hand, he disposes of all the array of poetic brilliance from Wordsworth to Tennyson. It is evident on the face of it that Signor Croce has not written a history of European literature in the nineteenth century...
...else is prose. Ruskin thought he had stripped his definition of non-essentials when he wrote that poetry is "the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions." Later he discovered he had left out rhythm, and he amended his definition to include it. But Signor Croce stands upon his knife-edge distinction, and is not at all daunted by the necessity of calling de Maupassant a poet. The practical value of his theory is very doubtful. If one could overlook all but the simplest facts, as Signor Croce has done, that would certainly make matters much...
Upon the second anniversary of the triumphant entry into Rome of the Fascist legions, the Fascist national militia, which for two years has been an extra-legal army owing allegiance only to Signor Benito Mussolini as the Dux of Fascismo, swore allegiance to King Vittorio Emanuele and ceased to be a purely party organization. At Milan, Benito's home town, Black Shirts, as the Fascist Militia is known, concentrated in large numbers to swear fealty to their King. The most spectacular parade was, however, at Rome. In the vale of the Aventine and Palatine hills, between the Colosseum...
Meanwhile, the trolley had stopped; and Signor Casalini was removed to the hospital, where he died soon after...